I The Frontier. • FD1UIH1D EVERT THURSDAY BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY KINO ii CRONIN. Editors. Mart women size ups man’s liberal Ilf by the Easter outfit of bis wife and daughters. Wk refuse to believe that votes were bought in the Arkansas legislature as low as 1100 each. Tits drop from deputy oil inspector to police judge must be a bard thing for old Whiskers to bear. Mr. Cleveland has quite enough to answer for without charging him with being a drunkard, as a Massachusetts Methodist minister recently did. Senator Palmer lost no time in con demning the calling of that democratic silver convention in Illinois. He doesn't want the party to commit itself in an off year. _, _ _ The Clevelandltes are meeting the de mands for a southern man at the bead of the democratic ticket next year with the offer of second place on Grover’s ticket to the south. —-- » f -- Hon. D. B. Hill’s indorsement of the suggestion that a southern man may be nominated next year by the democrats was merely a grand stand play for Sena tor Gorman's especial benefit. The supreme court has no executive clerk to make a scapegoat of, as the U. S. senate did when unable to discover the method by which the proceedings of its secret sessions got into the newspa pers. _ _ The Atkinson Graphic is now under the management of Representative Jen esa, formerly of Douglass county. The paper will continue to be republican in politics. Tnn Frontier whishes him Success. Iv tlie claim of England—that the United States has nothing to do with her encroachments upon the territory of Venesuela—be admitted, all the south and central American governments may p as well prepare to go out of business. Something must be out of joint in Arkansas when a governor and a mem* her of the legislature attempt to annihi late each other with tobacco juice, when guns or bowle knives would have been more in keeping with the traditions of the state. Shalt, this country maintain its pres ent boundaries or shall it reach out and include everything that will be necessary to the greatest commercial nation the world has ever seen? Upon the decis ion will depend whether we remain merely a great nation or become the greatest._ Accohding to the official figures, which are slightly more reliable than Secretary Carlisle’s alleged expectations, the average daily receipts of the govern ment are 1865,000, and the average daily expenditures $1,015,000. Thesameratio up to June SO will make the expendi tures of the current fiscal year exceed the receipts by $55,000,000. Tun Sun says the decision of the su preme court on the income tax question "is not satisfactory to the public." The .. supreme court does not sit for the pur pose of deciding questions "satisfactory to the public:” they are supposed to de eldq everything according to law. If the,laws are not "satisfactory to the public,” the public knows how to repeal them. Thb New York grand jury evidently ' doesn't believe in the philanthropby of Mr. Nathan Straus, the introducer of sterilised milk for the poor, and the man whe was too smart to run against Strong for mayor, last year. At any rate, he has been Indited for improper acts while holding the office of park commissioner. Mr. Straus is a member of the big busi ness firm known as R. H. Macy, & Co.; also a personal friend of Mr. Cleveland. 'When a prisoner in a New York court pleaded hypnotic influence in de fence of a theft, the judge took a very different view from that taken by the Kaneae court. After sentencing the fellow to ten years’ imprisonment he told him he might send for the hypnot ist and hare himself made unconscious for the period of ten years. "The same power," said the judge, "which enabled you to commit burgarly, and not knowing it, ought also enable you to suffer Imprisonment with hard labor, and not be aware of it. At any rate this is the best I can do for you.” The governor has signed the bill au thorising the investment of moneys in county sinking funds in registered county warrants. *This is a good bill and will fill a long-felt want. The Dodge county board of supervisors au thorised the county treasurer to do this two or three years ago, during Treasurer Dem’s administration and at his request. The law did not then justity the pro ceedure but the new law legalizes it and business sagacity and sense justify it. It js a senseless fiscal policylfor a county or any other division of government to pay interest on outstanding warrants when it has large sums of idle money in the treasury.—Fremont Tribune. ' » Koh the benefit of the Hun and Smudge vc repeat that in answer to our charges ngainst populist officials, it is not suffi cient for them to assert—and prove for that matter—that “they are doing no more than republicans did.” The pops Hie supposed to be a party of reform nud have no license to do as republicans did. llefore they were elected they said republicans were “thieves” and “bood lcrs,” and now that they are in power the people have a right to see an altera tion In the policy of administration. In the light of the populist county plat form and in consideration of the talk they have been making for years, in order for us to provo a breach of faith on their part it is sufficient to show that they are simply following in republican footsteps. We would like to see the color of that promised reform before the republicans clean out the court-house next fall. Men who denounce the action of Attorney General Churchill in taking the Scott trial to Boyd county, and thereby attempt to create sympathy for the men no w under arrest for the mur der, on account of the expense that will be incurred in the trial, aro somewhat near-sighted. The Boyd county people who allow themselves to be caught in this sirup are not wise. There is an other and vastly mora sensible and pa triotic way of looking at the matter. They should consider that if Scott had not been murdered his body would not have been dragged across the border by red-handed villains and dumped upon Boyd county. Then again, if a certain class of Boyd county's citizens would display less inclination to sympathize with the murderers, but denounce the crime as it should be denounced, the men who are accused of the deed would consider Boyd an unsafe locality in which to go to trial and ask for a change of venue. The man who kicks at a slight taxation for the enforcement of the laws of hie country and the preser vation of the constitution-guaranteed rights of himself and his fellow citizens is not a very good citizen anyway. Tub Sun, whlbh is the chief defender of populiam in this county, last week devoted a column and a half to the defenae of the “chief clerk" ateal. The article la ao fearfully compoaed that it la difficult to find any aenae, logic or any* thing elae reaaonable in it, except sev eral admissions of pop snap-grabbings. This is just what we have been for a long time laboring to have the Bun do and we know of no better way that the object could have been accomplished. \Ye like to see the Sun defend the action of the board in giving the treasurer’s “chief clerk" 9700, which is the limit of the law quoted by the Sun. Such action on its part verifies the language used byi us two weeks ago, at which time we said: ‘‘They were not alow about show ing their displeasure when republicans were guilty of the same offense and they must now apply the rule or admit pub licly that they are craven hypocrites.” Now the trutn is, and all who are famil idr with the subject know, that when our county was in its most prosperous condition, the main cry of the populists was for reform; to reduce salaries and cut down expenses; and upon a platform of this kind they went before the people and solicited their support.' The salar ies paid assistants by republicans ranged from $600 to $700, more frequently six than seven. This was called extrava gance by the populists. In those dayB such a thing as “chief clerk” had never been ^thought of. It is purely a pop invention and they draw $100 a year royalty on the discovery. As we said before, the Sun article is incomprehen sible, It reads as though written by some person afflicted with jim-jams, or jam-jims, or something of that kind. We quote: “If Treasurer Mullen should keep ail the clerks allowed to him at work at full pay during the present year, the expense would amount to $2, 600, or $S0 lean than that of last year.” Now how many clerks were allowed him? Let the Sun answer again: “A sufficient number of clerks to properly perform the office work, salary of chief clerk to be $700 per annum, all other ciei-as At w>u per month.” The last quo tation is from the recommendation of the committee upon assistants. • How does the Sun presume to say what the saving would be it Mullen should avail himself of the liberties extended by the board? He is unlimited, although the statute says the board “shall in all cases prescribe the number of deputies or assist ants, the time for which they may be employed, and the compensation which they are to receive.” This little matter of illegality and favoritism escaped our notice until the Sun called our attention to it. Although this was not intentional upon the part of the Sun, we extend thanks anyway. There is nothing like keeping the people educated in these trivial matters. There is no use to make a long drawn out controversy of this independent sin. After all has been said that can be said one fact remains, and that is this: Holt county populists are not reformers. They are imita tors and exaggerators. Where it is con venient they take all that was custom ary for republicans to take, when that is not convenient or adequate they take enough more to make it so. This fact is interwoven in their history in this county, and the $100 grab under discus sion but emphasizes it. The extrava gance complained of by populists when republicans were in power never was a circumstance to what it has been under this administration. The tax payers' cry of hard times now has a genuine ring and the county should not blow its money in for expensive clerks, espec ially when “good men can be found who are willing to work for $30 or <30 per month.” arc offered to the nub!!c l» T1JE , lltIB — Chicago'sgreatest ei >■'.!: .» t store! Matin of st.rhi.ly nilj cloth—well fitting: and strong i. j can positively guarantee tlierh t! o Best Bargains lor tlio money I ever given by anybody. j». The Hub’s FaiMiis r Head-To-Foot Ouims l For Boys from 5 to 15 yet ? old. * consist of One DonUflJn- : . Coat, Two »*at r« olKtipc lira, aStaulry Cap, made to match tlio suit, mid One t*alr of Shoes, tnude of solid leather very noat, yet as strong as a brick, and the price, of the entire “llead-To-l'oot" Outi:. Is Only r' i. Tens of thousands so 1 to every P state of tlio Union, and o very one fa ’* delighted with them. Vott’ll bo. pleased, too. If you'll lot us send H you one-all charges prepaid to any part of the U. 8. for *6.7ft, or C. O. U. M with prlvllego of examination be- H foro pay uicnt—t f a deposit of 81.00 Is W sent with the order. je> Samples of Clotlj and SO-paste I Illustrated Catalogue telling I you all about the greatest lino of I Men's and I’.oys' Clothing, Furnish [ lng Goods, Hats, Shoes for Men and Women, and Ladles' Cloaks and Furs, sent free and postage paid. N. W. Cor. Slate and Jackson Sts., CHICAGO, ILL. The Hub has no Branch Stores Anywhere.! O’NEiLLBUSINESS DIRECTORY R. DICKSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Referenoe First National Bank O'NEILL, NEB. J C. SMOOT, FASHIONABLE BARBER. DEALER IN OIOARE, ETO. J)IL J. P. GILL1GAN, PHY8ICAN AND SURGEON. Day and night calls promptly attended to. Offloe in Holt County Bank building. O'NEILL. NEB. |^ H. 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